Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems

2004-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 6 Apr 2004 at 21:18, Dilwyn Jones wrote: This is something we don't have much of on the QL scene - automatic software updates. On the whole we replace the entire program package by overwriting it, or replace a few files such as the main executable. If we are lucky, the configuration is

Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems

2004-04-07 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 at 10:16:56, Tony Firshman wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 at 10:19:26, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I see you two are a few fingered typist like me. ^Whoops - 'too'. I am sure you are one person really (8-)# --

Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems

2004-04-07 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos ( . )
On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:19:26 +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Apr 2004 at 21:18, Dilwyn Jones wrote: This is something we don't have much of on the QL scene - automatic software updates. On the whole we replace the entire program package by overwriting it, or replace a few

Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems

2004-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 7 Apr 2004 at 6:47, Phoebus R. Dokos (è á. ç) wrote: (...) Nope it ain't. OS functionality changes are very few and have been available for years now only not released to the public. OS functionality means better memory protection, driver software, that kind of thing... not

Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems

2004-04-07 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 at 16:24:06, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) On 7 Apr 2004 at 10:16, Tony Firshman wrote: Having integrated software does not negate your position at all. To not use them, one simply installs other software and let the installation change the default,

Re: [ql-users] 41K virus

2004-04-07 Thread Dilwyn Jones
pane or something like that. Turn it off! I learned to both turn that off and close the preview pane, that way I can check who the email is from before opening it. Better still ... when you can get around to it is to change your Mail software to something else. There are many excellent

Re: [ql-users] Printer help

2004-04-07 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Dilwyn, If you have a CD, put it in drive, if it does not autostart, click Start, then Run, and browse. From the Dir that comes up select setup, or boot, or install, whatever the .exe file is, and it should install itself. Regards Mike MacNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precisely the problem.

Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems

2004-04-07 Thread Dilwyn Jones
This is something we don't have much of on the QL scene - automatic software updates. On the whole we replace the entire program package by overwriting it, or replace a few files such as the main executable. If we are lucky, the configuration is held in a separate file and so settings

Re: [ql-users] Printer help

2004-04-07 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Click on 'View devices by connection'. Highlight the device, and view its Properties. If they make sense it is OK. If not try an 'automatic' install, or if that fails a manual install. Then delete any unwanted versions, as

Re: [ql-users] Operating Systems

2004-04-07 Thread Roy wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], =?iso-8859-7?B?IlBob2VidXMgUi4gRG9rb3MgKNbv3+Lv8iDRLiDN9Pzq7/IpIg==?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes As for what Roy talks about in length, I do not disagree that a user wants to plug and go any machine (That was the idea behind the QL anyway), however the Windoze

RE: [ql-users] Operating Systems..Notepad..?

2004-04-07 Thread ian . pizer
-- Message original -- From: Arvid Børretzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ql-users] Operating Systems..Notepad..? Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 22:11:03 +0200 Cc: Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony wrote: Word is a case in point here. I really hate Word - it is pretty